tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584578.post363784982699453041..comments2016-12-08T11:19:21.392+01:00Comments on Tobold's Blog: Shackled by Free2Play?Tobold Stoutfoothttps://plus.google.com/102654666335943437765noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584578.post-45211850617139052802012-12-05T14:42:38.202+01:002012-12-05T14:42:38.202+01:00@4c22... Sub games have a different mentality. Aft...@4c22... Sub games have a different mentality. After the sub, everything is free so if a person wants to dump and old character they think of the 30 days played instead of the cost of 6 months of subs while a FTP gamer might think about the 30days played AND the $10 of level boosting gear from the item shop. Strange, but people are irrational.<br /><br />I like how WoW is both using loss aversion to get people to come back, but also reducing the impact to players by moving mounts, pets and achievements to an account instead of being bound to a single character.dobablohttp://dobablo.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584578.post-66957706162455630172012-12-05T01:48:39.244+01:002012-12-05T01:48:39.244+01:00In a way I find it refreshing. I started with EQ s...In a way I find it refreshing. I started with EQ so when I first went to WoW and my friends wanted to reroll characters or change factions I was appalled.<br /><br />I like that people don&#39;t just server transfer at the first sign of something bad. I like that they feel locked into one character on one server for better or worse. They are forced to work on improving that servers community rather than just transfer when things get bad. To this day my EQ server had the BEST community I&#39;ve ever experienced in a MMO and I attribute most of that to the fact that we couldn&#39;t just transfer off. We had to make it work or go through the difficult process of making a new character.Epinyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10725412326405113917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584578.post-81844263190107145212012-12-04T22:00:08.621+01:002012-12-04T22:00:08.621+01:00Also money lost, since the money spent on the subs...Also money lost, since the money spent on the subscription while building the character is also a loss if you can&#39;t transfer it off.4c22cb52-3723-11e0-95c0-000bcdcb2996https://openid.aol.com/opaque/4c22cb52-3723-11e0-95c0-000bcdcb2996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584578.post-44647561892027154682012-12-04T21:59:31.222+01:002012-12-04T21:59:31.222+01:00Isn&#39;t this more of a failure to provide server...Isn&#39;t this more of a failure to provide server switches problem than a F2P problem?<br /><br />You&#39;d still have the same loss aversion that people experience in WoW before server changes were a thing, except for money lost it&#39;s time lost.4c22cb52-3723-11e0-95c0-000bcdcb2996https://openid.aol.com/opaque/4c22cb52-3723-11e0-95c0-000bcdcb2996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584578.post-257338951576121182012-12-04T18:03:45.941+01:002012-12-04T18:03:45.941+01:00I play WoW so I don&#39;t have to deal with loss a...I play WoW so I don&#39;t have to deal with loss aversion...ism... uh ...<br /><br />Something.<br /><br />I avoided MMO&#39;s for a very long time. I very much enjoyed Baldur&#39;s Gate, but didn&#39;t like having to <i>nearly</i> start over for BG2, and worse, starting over completely for IWD/2, NWN, Dragon Age, etc. I knew how I was going to react to having a character (or a few characters) that I could keep advancing, effectively forever. I knew that I would react as I have done, which is to maintain my subscription since the day I started playing WoW some five+ years ago.<br /><br />I hate starting over : /Derrill Guilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384500415569606407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5584578.post-4029719807390852752012-12-04T15:16:57.150+01:002012-12-04T15:16:57.150+01:00As a sidenote: They are going to make RMT purchase...As a sidenote: They are going to make RMT purchases account wide.Sanek Taverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15841412794943726014noreply@blogger.com